Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 21:23:29 +0100
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: USB-FPGA development
On 2016-11-09 23:11, Solar Designer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 05:13:51PM +0000, apingis@...nwall.net wrote:
>> 2.3. I've implemented a warning when mask is too short and that results in performance degradation because USB 2.0 link has no enough bandwith. The warning appears during self-test and it looks confusing. How can format know when self-test is running, to suppress the warning?
>
> Oh, so this is why I saw that spurious warning.
>
> I think yes, you can detect self-test, but I'd rather someone else
> (more familiar with jumbo specific) answers this. magnum, Jim?
You can test for bench_running (declare it as extern volatile int). It
will be true during self-test as well as benchmarking.
>> Is it planned to add usage of mask in self-test?
You can use '-test -mask' for benchmarking (optionally with a mask of
choice), but it won't (yet) test/verify proper functionality (self tests
are skipped).
magnum